Document Type : Review Article
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Assistant Professor
Abstract
Emotion has an important role in naturalness of man-machine communication. So, computerized emotion recognition from speech is investigated by many researchers in the recent decades. In this paper, the effect of formant-related features on improving the performance of emotion detection systems is experimented. To do this, various forms and combinations of the first three formants are concatenated to a popular feature vector and Gaussian mixture models are used as classifiers. Experimental results show average recognition rate of 69% in four emotional states and noticeable performance improvement by adding only one formant-related parameter to feature vector. The architecture of hybrid emotion recognition/spotting is also proposed based on the developed models.
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